1597 in music
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Events
- Lutenist and composer Robert Jones graduates from St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Publications
- Gregor Aichinger – Third book of motets (Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann)
- Giammateo Asola – Vespertina omnium solemnitatum psalmodia for two choirs (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- Ippolito Baccusi – Psalmi omnes qui a S. Romana Ecclesia in solemnitatibus ad vesperas decantari solent..., for eight voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes two Magnificats
- Adriano Banchieri
- Hora prima di recreazione, first book of canzonettas for three voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice)
- Joachim a Burck – Die Historia des Leidens Jesu Christi auss dem Evangelisten S. Luca (The Story of the Passion of Jesus Christ by the Evangelist St. Luke) for five voices (Mühlhausen: Hieronymous Reinhard)
- Sethus Calvisius – Harmonia cantionum ecclesiasticarum for four voices (Leipzig: Jacob Apel), a collection of Lutheran hymns
- Giovanni Croce
- Vespertina omnium solemnitatum psalmodia for eight voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti), contains psalms for Vespers
- First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti)
- Girolamo Dalla Casa – First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino)
- John Dowland – The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Foure Partes with tableture for the lute (London: Peter Short)
- Johannes Eccard
- Geistlicher Lieder auff den Choral oder gemeine Kirchen Melodey for five voices, in two volumes (Königsberg: Georg Osterberger)
- Echo for eight voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
- Epithalamion (Ein Sprichwort ist) for six voices (Königsberg, Georg Osterberger), a wedding song
- Giovanni Gabrieli – Sacrae Symphoniae, Book 1
- Anthony Holborne – Cittarn Schoole
- George Kirbye – The first set Of English Madrigalls, to 4. 5. & 6. voyces
- Thomas Morley – A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke
- Pietro Pace – Madrigali a cinque voci con uno a sei & un dialogo a sette (Venice, Ricciardo Amadino)
- Asprilio Pacelli – First book of motets and psalms to eight voices (Rome, Nicolo Mutii)
- Orazio Vecchi
- Canzonette a3
- L'Amfiparnasso, a madrigal comedy
Classical music
Opera
- Jacopo Peri – Dafne, the earliest known opera
Births
- July 22 – Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer of oratorios (died 1646)
- date unknown
- Andreas Düben, organist and composer (died 1662)
- Luigi Rossi, Italian composer of cantatas (died 1653)
Deaths
- January 29 – Elias Ammerbach, organist (b. c.1530)
- June 6 – William Hunnis, poet, dramatist, and composer
- October 7 – Francesco Rovigo, organist and composer (b. c.1540)
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